This book examines how the South Pacific was represented by explorers, missionaries, travellers, writers, and artists between 1767 and 1914 by drawing on history, literature, art history, and anthropology. Edmond engages with colonial texts and postcolonial theory, criticising b…
"This book offers 14 interdisciplinary studies on transgender identities and relevant non-normative forms of gender and sexuality among Pacific Islanders. One of the goals of the editors is to show that the transgender issues can garner academic discussions without being overly …
Transgender identities and other forms of gender and sexuality that transcend the normative pose important questions about society, culture, politics, and history. They force us to question, for example, the forces that divide humanity into two gender categories and render them …
This is a complete, practical country guide to Tahiti and French Polynesia for independent travellers. It contains chapters on history, culture, and food and drink. A special section is included on Tahitian dance and scuba diving
The "Journal" was composed before the trial 3 or 4 years after the events it narrates, probably from notes taken at the time of these events, though this is a supposition.
The mutiny on the Bounty was one of the most controversial events of eighteenth-century maritime history. This book publishes an absorbing narrative of the events written by one of the participants, the boatswain's mate James Morrison, who tells the story of the mounting tension…
